The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-05-26
CURIOUS rHlNes IN el,es.


A baby in Mauch Chunk, Pa, has besa
named Cleveland Blaine.
Cincinnati consumes more peanuts than
any other city in the United States.
A "newsboy' in Nashville, Tenn, IS 50
years old 1t will soon be time for hiIn to
retire
A farmer who has lived in Adams county
for forty years has never owned a wagon.
He does ali his hauling with a sled, winter
and summer.
Hugh McCaslin .93 years old, who lives
near Donaldson, Montgomery county, Ills,
Aas the whoolns cough for the second time
In his life. He had his first attack ninety
one years ago.
& farmer near jamestown. d. T., lost
turkey in blizzard. Twenty-four days later
he found the bird snugly buried in snow
drift where it had lived without food ever
since the storm.
About five months ago a sexce hailstorm,
lasting about five minutes, swept over Wis
consin and made great havoc among the Eng
ish sparrows i'll the southern past OF that
state Since then the pugnacious little birds
have net been numerous
Incredible as it may seem there are IN New
York c.t Y 8 500 families under the care of
charity or srho have some connection with
organized charities criminal authorities.
With an average of four persons to a family
this makes 81, 60 persons.
A young man of Emmons county, D. T.,
called on a young woman of his acquaint-
ance, and blizzard compelled him to stay
three days The young woman's father
brought preacher tc the house, and his
presence resulted in q wedding on the third
day.
a in Philadelphia wants to know
what is to prevent the introduction of rubber
lamp posts. He says they would prove in
valuable. man could consult his watch on
the darkest night, by bracing one foot against
the base OF the post and drawing the lamp
down within few inches of his head.
Merchants in Rock Island, Ills, oppose the
Introduction of the free delivery system of
mails in that city. They claim that when
people visit the postofice three or four times
day the streets present livelier appear
ance, and the citizens do more purchasing
than they would under the free delivery sys-
tenn.
A clergyman in Buffalo has peculiar way
of preparing his sermons. He takes the morn
ing train to some one of the surrounding
towns, then starts to walk back to town, de-
liYering his thoughts to the trees. fences and
the roadside By the time he reaches the city
he has his Sermon ready to deliver on the
next Sunday.
Mr.. David Minthoi1l, of Pamela Four Cor
ners, n. V, is the owner of watch which
was made i'll London in 1920. It was pre-
scented by King George III to Sir William
johnson, who gave it to Joseph Brant, the
famous Indian chief. Brant gave it to the
grandfather of its present owner. The watch
has always kept good time, and has been re-
paired but three times-in 1925, 1881 and
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Ten years ago John Pencil, old citizen
| of jackson, Mo, began the construction OF
| two collins, one for himself and one for his
wife In making the lid of his, the old man
forgot to make a place for his left knee,
which being broken, stands higher than his
| right. Therefore he made new cover which
fastens with hinges and opens like a door,
| allowing for the extra room needed. Mr..
| Pencil often places himself in his coffin, re-
marks that the fit is good, and that his work
manship at such an old age deserves praise.
James Lynn, Jr., farmer living south of
| Wabash, Ind, was recently stricken with q
| peculiar disease, which rapidly developed
into an appearance of trichiniasis, and every
member of tho family of five was in turn
taken with the strange malady. Their
limbs sweiled to frightful proportions and
| their agony was intense. The physician In
charge of the case has decided that the disease
was caused by breathing the poisonous gases
arising from the flames which consumed
several hundred hogs that had died OF hog
cholera on Mr.. Lynll's farm